' Top 10 Metal Albums of 2024 of the Music Press

To compile this data, I went through every big music website that has a top ten metal album list along with all the writer's lists from various websites to find who my peers in music journalists thought were the top 10 metal albums of 2024, so this compiles lists, from Stereogum, Metal Sucks, Rolling Stone, Revolver, No Clean Singing, Ghost Cult, Treblezine, Pop Matters, Metal Injection, Angry Metal Guy, Loudwire, Decibel,, Lambgoat and more.  

Only a few surprises, the top 5 should be expected if you see what albums are getting the most buzz and hype. I think the number one album is perhaps the most overhyped of the bunch, but it also won by the hugest margin, I think most of these albums were safe bets, by artists who do not push societies buttons making them pretty tame, which is not really what metal is about, it's a very controlled danger, is the overall tone of this list with a few exceptions to this rule

10-Couch Slut - "You Could Do it Tonight" 

This was a surprise as it's a great album that rides the line between noise-rock and sludge. It's dark and lyrically interesting, glad that it is getting recognition. 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/04/couch-slut-you-could-do-it-tonight.html

9-Wormed - "Omegon" 

I heard this album and thought I would rather listen to the new Benighted. But impressed this once got so many mentions. 

8-Job For a Cowboy - "Moon Healer" 

Well-made, but I would rather listen to Carcass when it comes to this sort of thing. 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/01/job-for-cowboy-moon-healer.html

7-Caligula's Horse - "Charcoal Grace" 

Was not impressed enough by the songs I heard from this one to review the whole album. It's more for the kinda kids who listen to Devin Townsend and proggy rock and get their over-produced guitar tones painted up like a metal band without actually being, one, they are talented enough players, this one just bored me. Not dark enough. 

6-Replicant-"Infinite Mortality' 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/04/replicant-infinite-mortality.html

5-Crypt Sermon- "The Stygian Rose" 

Falling at the intersection where thrash, power metal and doom meet, this takes the best melodic elements from bands like Metal Church and takes them to work. The best album on this list. 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/07/crypt-sermon-stygian-rose.html

4-Ulcerate - "Cutting the Throat of God' 

This album is good, and I am surprised it got so much recognition. It did not make my top 10 death metal albums as there were just more death metal albums that were better. 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/04/ulcerate-cutting-throat-of-god.html

3-Chat Pile-"Cool World' 

This is one of the best sludge albums of the year. It's more accessible than a Neurosis album, and these guys are pretty clever so it's not surprising this album proved to be the one that broke them through to the metal mainstream. 

 https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/09/chat-pile-cool-world.html

2-Opeth-"The Last Will and Testament' 

They made number two on my prog-list. There is more of a metal touch to things, since he brings back the growl, and these are well-written songs so this is one of the few album's on here that warrants the hype. 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/11/opeth-last-will-testament.html

1- Blood Incantation - "Absolute Elsewhere" 

This one won everyone over by a pretty huge margin. I was basically an honorable mention on my top 10 prog albums of the year. It's good, but not the best, however, the band has been a hipster favorite when it comes to death metal since they have mustaches and look like they work at a brewery rather than the bullet belt norm of the genre. 

https://abysmalhymns.blogspot.com/2024/10/blood-incantation-absolute-elsewhere.html

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